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spades

name · noun · verb · 5 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • spādz
  • General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /speɪdz/
  • General-American: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -eɪdz
  • CMU ARPABET: S P EY1 D Z Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

name

Meaning 1

plural of Spade

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: form-of, plural

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

plural of spade

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: form-of, plural

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

One of the four suits of playing cards, marked with the symbol ♠.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: plural, plural-only

Topics: card-games, games

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

A card game in which the spade suit cards are trumps.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: plural, plural-only

Topics: card-games, games

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

verb

Meaning 5

third-person singular simple present indicative of spade

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

No etymology was provided for this word.

Across languages

Translations

88 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: pikë — suit of playing cards
  • Albanian: maç — suit of playing cards
  • Arabic: بَسْتُونِيّ (bastūniyy) — suit of playing cards
  • Arabic: سبيت (sibīt) — suit of playing cards
  • Azerbaijani: qaratoxmaq — suit of playing cards
  • Belarusian: пі́ка (píka) — suit of playing cards
  • Belarusian: ві́на (vína) — suit of playing cards
  • Bengali: ইস্কাবন (iskabon) — suit of playing cards
  • Bulgarian: пи́ка (píka) — suit of playing cards
  • Bulgarian: пи́ки (píki) — suit of playing cards
  • Burmese: ဖူး (hpu:) — suit of playing cards
  • Catalan: piques — suit of playing cards
  • Chinese Cantonese: 葵扇 (kwai4 sin3) — suit of playing cards
  • Chinese Mandarin: 黑桃 (hēitáo) — suit of playing cards
  • Czech: piky — suit of playing cards
  • Danish: spar — suit of playing cards
  • Dutch: schoppen — suit of playing cards
  • Esperanto: piko — suit of playing cards
  • Estonian: poti — suit of playing cards
  • Finnish: pata — suit of playing cards
  • French: pique — suit of playing cards
  • Galician: picas — suit of playing cards
  • German: Pik — suit of playing cards
  • German: Schippe — suit of playing cards
  • Hindi: हुक्म (hukma) — suit of playing cards
  • Hungarian: pikk — suit of playing cards
  • Interlingua: spada — suit of playing cards
  • Interlingua: picca — suit of playing cards
  • Italian: picche — suit of playing cards
  • Japanese: スペード (supēdo) — suit of playing cards
  • Kazakh: қарға (qarğa) — suit of playing cards
  • Khmer: ប៊ិក (bɨk) — suit of playing cards
  • Korean: 스페이드 (seupeideu) — suit of playing cards
  • Kyrgyz: карга (karga) — suit of playing cards
  • Latin: hastae — suit of playing cards
  • Latvian: pīķi — suit of playing cards
  • Lithuanian: pikai — suit of playing cards
  • Lithuanian: vynai — suit of playing cards
  • Luxembourgish: Schëppen — suit of playing cards
  • Macedonian: лист (list) — suit of playing cards
  • Macedonian: пик (pik) — suit of playing cards
  • Malay: sekopong — suit of playing cards
  • Malay: sped — suit of playing cards
  • Māori: hāwara — suit of playing cards
  • Marathi: इस्पिक (ispik) — suit of playing cards
  • Mongolian: гил (gil) — suit of playing cards
  • Navajo: asbáala — suit of playing cards
  • Norwegian Bokmål: spar — suit of playing cards
  • Ojibwe: gichi-biig — suit of playing cards
  • Ojibwe: biig — suit of playing cards
  • Iranian Persian: پیک (pik) — suit of playing cards
  • Polish: pik — suit of playing cards
  • Portuguese: espadas — suit of playing cards
  • Romanian: pică — suit of playing cards
  • Romanian: frunză — suit of playing cards
  • Russian: пи́ки (píki) — suit of playing cards
  • Russian: пи́ка (píka) — suit of playing cards
  • Russian: ви́ни (víni) — suit of playing cards
  • Serbo-Croatian: пи̏к — suit of playing cards
  • Serbo-Croatian: pȉk — suit of playing cards
  • Slovak: pika — suit of playing cards
  • Slovak: piky — suit of playing cards
  • Slovene: pík — suit of playing cards
  • Spanish: picas — suit of playing cards
  • Swahili: shupaza — suit of playing cards
  • Swahili: jembe — suit of playing cards
  • Swedish: spader — suit of playing cards
  • Tagalog: ispada — suit of playing cards
  • Tagalog: espada — suit of playing cards
  • Tajik: қарамашшоқ (qaramaššoq) — suit of playing cards
  • Tatar: карга (qarğa) — suit of playing cards
  • Thai: โพดํา (poo-dam) — suit of playing cards
  • Turkish: maça — suit of playing cards
  • Turkish: pik — suit of playing cards
  • Ottoman Turkish: ماچه (maça) — suit of playing cards
  • Ottoman Turkish: كورك (kürek) — suit of playing cards
  • Turkmen: garahal — suit of playing cards
  • Turkmen: gara — suit of playing cards
  • Ukrainian: вино́ (vynó) — suit of playing cards
  • Ukrainian: пі́ка (píka) — suit of playing cards
  • Urdu: حُکْم (hukm) — suit of playing cards
  • Uyghur: قاغا (qagha) — suit of playing cards
  • Uzbek: qargʻa — suit of playing cards
  • Vietnamese: pích — suit of playing cards
  • Vietnamese: bích — suit of playing cards
  • Bengali: ইস্কাবনবাজী (iskabonbaji) — card game
  • Latin: hastae — card game
  • Polish: piki — card game
Real reading context

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